ISTAR Evaluation
Abstract
ISTAR is a software development and project management environment that integrates management and technical development activities. It is based on the contract model, whose primary objective is that every individual in the organization know what is expected of him or her. To accomplish this, the relationships among the individuals of the organization are modeled as contracts. Each contract has a specification of the work to be performed under it, a person to whom it has been assigned, and a person for whom the work is being done. Chapter 2 describes the contract model both as a project management structure and as a data storage structure. It was found that the emphasis on project hygiene leads to a strict separation of user data spaces which causes excess data storage requirements and data movement operations. This, in turn, may make data sharing and cooperative work more difficult. ISTAR's user interface is also described in Chapter 2. That interface has a high degree of consistency because all user interaction is mediated through imperial Software's proprietary editor, E, which is window- and menu-oriented. Chapter 3, which forms the bulk of the report, deals with the functional areas (that is, those tool sets supplied with ISTAR) which were of most interest to us. The remaining tool sets are described in Chapter 4.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 01, 1988
- Accession Number
- ADA201345
Entities
People
- Daniel H. Miller
- Marc H. Graham
Organizations
- Carnegie Mellon University